The speaker of the radical Islamist Taliban movement, which seized power in Afghanistan, said that his movement is supported by “the people of Crimea if they want to be with Russia.” Zabihullah Mujahid said this in an interview with a Russian newspaper Octagon.
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“We want to have good diplomatic contacts and all-round ties with Russia. We want stability in the region, and we do not want Russia to be at war with any country. With regard to Crimea, I want to say that this is the business of Ukraine and Moscow. We are We hope that this problem will be resolved soon. God forbid that because of this there is a war in the region and other countries use it for their own purposes. This will destabilize the region, “he said.
The journalist recalled that in 2014 Afghanistan was one of the few countries that recognized the so-called referendum in Crimea, and asked if this position had changed.
“As I said, it depends on what the people of Crimea want. If they want to be with Russia, we are in favor,” the Taliban spokesman said.
REFERENCE… Crimea was occupied by the Russian Federation in March 2014. On the peninsula, human rights are massively violated, there are murders, abductions of activists, lawsuits are fabricated, people are illegally taken into custody, intimidated, arrested and searched without reason. More than a hundred Ukrainian citizens were detained in the occupied Crimea and in Russia for political reasons, most of them are Crimean Tatars. The US and the EU regularly impose sanctions against Russia over Crimea.
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